"Tristan" (casselts)
03/22/2018 at 23:33 • Filed to: None
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"Tristan" (casselts)
03/22/2018 at 23:33 • Filed to: None | 0
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Pilot proficiency training: it’s like, super duper top secret and mysterious and junk.
Tyler Rogoway: Now with more fear-mongering!
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Tristan
> Tristan
03/22/2018 at 23:38 |
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Link, ‘cause Kinja.
Chariotoflove
> Tristan
03/22/2018 at 23:46 |
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Or maybe it’s meant to intimidate the liberals. Dammit, that Trump’s at it again!
wafflesnfalafel
> Tristan
03/22/2018 at 23:49 |
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Seems odd they would cross back and forth right through the approach/departure for both Seatac and Boeing Fields. Traffic controllers must have been freakin’ out...
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Tristan
> Chariotoflove
03/22/2018 at 23:50 |
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That’s definitely the logical answer. Or maybe they’re using Seattle’s plentiful homeless population to hone their 30mm skillz.
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Tristan
> wafflesnfalafel
03/22/2018 at 23:55 |
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Possibly using air traffic to train with the radar, IFF, EW and countermeasure systems to simulate air-to-air threats? Good training if we were to engage in conflict with a country that has an adversarial Air Force. Gunships are pretty vulnerable to enemy aircraft.
facw
> Tristan
03/22/2018 at 23:55 |
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Yeah, if they want to practice pilot proficiency it doesn’t seem like that’s any reason to do so over a major city and airport. There are plenty of empty places to do that. Seems very likely they were doing something else (whether training, or part of some real operation). Just flying they can do anywhere.
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Tristan
> facw
03/22/2018 at 23:59 |
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There’s a large crew on that plane and they all need proficiency training. Training sorties over the Eglin range are great and all, but close air support missions come in all forms, including urban. There are far less conspicuous aircraft with far better surveillance equipment if that’s what you’re alluding to.
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wafflesnfalafel
> Tristan
03/23/2018 at 00:23 |
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Had to be something specific to that area - maybe practice interacting in high civilian air traffic areas? Or maybe prep for the Saudi Prince’s visit this week?
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Tristan
> wafflesnfalafel
03/23/2018 at 00:32 |
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Not really. AFSOC sends Gunships all over creation to practice flying in circles over different stuff. This month it’s Seattle, next week it’ll be Bangor, ME. Then, March AFB, CA. Then Jacksonville, MS. Anywhere there’s a military base with support for heavies nearby, which is pretty much everywhere. An unproven, non-operational (I don’t care what AFSOC says, it’s not operational until it’s gone into combat) CAS aircraft isn’t providing security detail for a foreign dignitary over a U.S. city.
coqui70
> Tristan
03/24/2018 at 23:33 |
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Until they line up that attaching aircraft on the crosshairs of the 105 (or any of the other guns on the thing). It would take some of that fancy flying shit - but it would be a nasty surprise!